Contains:
- Knitting pattern for simple summer shawl
- Photo tutorial and line-by-line stitch counts included
- Suitable for advanced beginners
Materials you need at home:
- Approximately 880 m of fingering weight yarn. For the shawl used, about 440 m of each color were used
- 3.75 mm/US 5 needles, or size needed to obtain gauge
- Stitch markers - 13 locking markers to mark off the final scallops (optional, but they will help keep you on track)
- Tapestry needle for weaving in ends
Have a few skeins of fingering-weight yarn that need something to do this summer? Bring two or a few colors together to play in Summer Camp, an easy-to-memorize and easy-to-modify shawl that makes an effortless, low-key knit. It’s perfect for pairing a crazy variegated or a speckled colorway with a coordinating solid, or for using leftovers or a gradient set. The shawl is worked sideways with a knitted-on edging, and the simple instructions mean you can knit one up from wherever your summer days take you.
Resizing is easy - just add stripes! (The final scallop directions will work as written as long as you increase by full stripes.)
If you like having a row-by-row stitch count, there is a separate pdf available to download.
Finished measurements: approximately 173 cm wide and 35.5 cm deep
Gauge: 22 stitches to 10 cm of unblocked garter stitch
Note: Though conversions to the metric system have been made on this page for your convenience, the pattern itself uses American measurements.
Laura Aylor
If ‘knitting designer’ had been one of the job choices for those aptitude tests they give you in high school, I wouldn’t have spent so many years trying to decide what I wanted to be when I grew up. My best subject in high school was math; my best classes in college were logic, drawing, and a commercial art class. After careers in computer programming/analysis and child-rearing, knit design snuck up on me, but I think it’s the perfect use of my odd skill set! I love every step of the process, from figuring out how to actually make what I’ve envisioned to putting the finishing touches on a pattern, not to mention all the knitting that comes in between!
I also love reading and hiking and spending time on Brier Island in Nova Scotia every summer.